Jamie Figueroa received her MFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her writing has appeared in Epoch, McSweeney's, and American Short Fiction. She is the recipient of the Truman Capote Scholarship and is a Bread Loaf scholar. Boricua by way of Ohio, Figueroa lives in northern New Mexico.
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A searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself • 'A lushly written, deeply felt investigation into the meanings of home, lineage and selfhood.' —Melissa F... SEE MORE